Frases de Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver
Fecha de nacimiento: 25. Mayo 1938
Fecha de muerte: 2. Agosto 1988
Otros nombres: ریموند کارور, ريموند كارفر
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. fue un cuentista y poeta estadounidense.
Destacado principalmente por sus relatos de corte minimalista,[1] en su mayoría ambientados en la región Noroeste de Estados Unidos y protagonizados por personajes de clase trabajadora o media baja,[2] Carver es considerado uno de los fundadores y mayores exponentes del movimiento literario conocido como «realismo sucio».[3][4]
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Frases Raymond Carver
„Iba a contaros algo -empezó Mel-. Bueno, iba a demostrar algo. Veréis: sucedió hace unos meses, pero sigue sucediendo en este mismo instante, y es algo que debería hacer que nos avergoncemos cuando hablamos como si supiéramos de qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor.“
— Raymond Carver, libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
„Es octubre, un día húmedo. Desde la ventana del hotel veo demasiadas cosas de esta ciudad del Medio Oeste. Veo cómo se encienden las luces de algunos edificios, veo cómo el humo de las altas chimeneas se alza en columnas espesas. Me gustaría no tener que mirar.“
— Raymond Carver, libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
„Creo que en el amor no somos más que principiantes. Decimos“
De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor
„It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.“
— Raymond Carver, libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Variante: and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
Fuente: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
„There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.“
— Raymond Carver, libro What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Fuente: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)
„I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.“
Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
„And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.“
— Raymond Carver, libro A New Path to the Waterfall
Fuente: A New Path to the Waterfall
„But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.“
Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
„Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.“
Fuente: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
